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+# ADR-0008: The read projection — a shared, rebuildable store with a writer and a reader
+
+- **Status:** Accepted
+- **Date:** 2026-06-30
+- **Deciders:** Respellion engineering
+- **Relates to:** S-06 (#7); builds on ADR-0001 (loose coupling), ADR-0007 (#56, OZ→NRC wiring); first EF Core usage in the repo
+
+## Context
+
+S-06 (#7) adds the upstream event path's destination: an **Event Subscriber** that consumes
+NRC notifications and a **read projection** the openbaar register reads. The walking-skeleton
+projection (PRD §8.4) holds one row per zaak — `id`, `bsn`, `naam_placeholder`, `status` —
+and must be **idempotent** (NRC redelivers and reorders, CLAUDE.md §8.6) and **rebuildable**
+(a derived artefact, never a write-only source of truth).
+
+Two design questions had no obvious answer:
+
+1. **Where does `bsn` come from?** The NRC `zaken`/`zaak`/`create` notification carries only the
+   zaak URL plus the fixed `kenmerken` (`bronorganisatie`, `zaaktype`, `vertrouwelijkheidaanduiding`).
+   It does **not** carry the bsn. Reading it means calling a ZGW API — which **only the ACL** may
+   do (CLAUDE.md §8.1). The issue's "Touches" lists only `event-subscriber` + `projection-api`,
+   not the ACL.
+2. **Who owns the projection schema?** The subscriber writes the projection; the projection-api
+   reads it. CLAUDE.md §8.5 says "no direct DB access across services; each service owns its
+   schema." Two deployables on one table looks like a violation.
+
+## Decision
+
+**One Postgres database is the read projection. The Event Subscriber writes it (projector) and
+the projection-api reads it (query); both are processes of the single "Read Projection" bounded
+context and share one schema, defined in a shared `Projection.ReadModel` library. `bsn` is
+deferred.**
+
+- **Schema ownership.** The read model — `register_projection` plus the subscriber's
+  `processed_notifications` log — lives in `services/projection-api/Projection.ReadModel`
+  (EF Core + Npgsql). Both services reference it. This is the textbook CQRS read-model split
+  (one writer, one reader over one derived store), **not** the cross-*domain* DB reach §8.5
+  forbids: no domain owns write-state here; the projection is rebuildable (§8.4). §8.5 still
+  holds for every domain database.
+- **Idempotency** is the primary key on `processed_notifications.key` (a deterministic key
+  derived from the immutable notification content). A duplicate insert raises a unique violation,
+  caught and reported as "already recorded", so the duplicate never reaches the projection. The
+  projection upsert is itself idempotent on the zaak id, a second line of defence.
+- **Rebuild replays the log, not OpenZaak.** `POST /admin/rebuild` clears `register_projection`
+  and reprojects every row in `processed_notifications`. So "rebuildable" needs **no** ZGW access
+  (§8.1) and no ACL dependency — keeping S-06 within its stated scope.
+- **`bsn` and `naam_placeholder` are deferred.** They are columns (nullable) but the minimal slice
+  populates only `id` + `status` (`INGEDIEND`) from the notification. Populating personal data
+  requires reading the zaak **through the ACL** (§8.1) and is its own follow-up; the column shape
+  is in place so that change is additive.
+- **New dependency: EF Core 10 + `Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL`.** What it gives us: a
+  migrated relational schema, LINQ queries, and a clean port implementation. What we'd write
+  instead: hand-rolled SQL + a migration runner. Risk: ORM complexity and an extra dependency
+  graph — bounded here to a tiny two-table read model. `dotnet-ef` is pinned as a local tool for
+  migrations; `NuGetAuditMode=direct` keeps EF's design-time-only tooling transitive out of the
+  audited, shipped graph.
+
+The end-to-end path is verified by a runner-safe live-stack smoke (`infra/run-projection-check.sh`,
+the `verify-projection` step of the `verify-stack` job, #58): register an abonnement at the real
+Event Subscriber's callback, create a zaak, assert projection-api serves an `INGEDIEND` row — all
+in-network, reaching services by container IP (ADR-0006/0007).
+
+## Consequences
+
+- **Positive:** the upstream event path reaches a queryable projection; idempotent and rebuildable
+  without OpenZaak; S-06 stays inside its stated touch-set (no ACL change); the projection-api is
+  ready for S-09 to tighten public-safe field filtering.
+- **Negative / deferred:**
+  - `bsn`/`naam_placeholder` stay empty until a follow-up wires zaak reads via the ACL.
+  - The abonnement is registered by the verify harness (by container IP), not provisioned
+    persistently — ADR-0007 already deferred a persistent abonnement, and a single-label service
+    host is not URL-valid for NRC, so persistent registration needs a dotted network alias. Tracked
+    as a follow-up; a plain `make up` therefore needs the abonnement registered before the event
+    path flows.
+  - Two services share one database. Acceptable for a derived read model; revisit if the read and
+    write sides ever need independent scaling or storage.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Subscriber reads OpenZaak directly to fill `bsn`** — rejected: breaks §8.1 (only the ACL talks
+  to ZGW) and would need its own ADR to bend the rule.
+- **Extend the ACL with a zaak-read operation, consumed as a library** — viable and §8.1-clean, but
+  it grows S-06 beyond its stated scope (touches the ACL) and pulls personal-data handling forward;
+  deferred to a follow-up.
+- **projection-api owns the DB and exposes an internal write endpoint the subscriber calls** —
+  rejected for the walking skeleton: adds an HTTP hop and a write surface on a read service for no
+  current benefit over a shared, rebuildable read model.
+- **Separate databases for the log and the projection** — rejected as premature: both are the read
+  side's private, rebuildable state; one DB is simpler and still honours §8.5's intent.
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+# Demo script
+
+A running log of demoable outcomes, one section per slice. Each entry is a short,
+copy-pasteable walkthrough against a local `make up` stack.
+
+---
+
+## S-06 — Event Subscriber + read projection
+
+**Outcome:** a zaak created in OpenZaak flows through NRC to the Event Subscriber, which
+projects it into a rebuildable read projection the projection-api serves.
+
+**The path:** OpenZaak → (notification) NRC → (abonnement callback) Event Subscriber →
+`register_projection` → projection-api `GET /register`.
+
+```bash
+# 1. Bring the full stack up (seeds config, builds our services, waits for health).
+make up
+
+# 2. Register the Event Subscriber's abonnement and create a zaak, then read it back.
+#    (The verify-projection check does exactly this end-to-end and asserts the result.)
+make verify-projection            # → "OK — projection-api serves zaak <uuid> with status INGEDIEND"
+
+# 3. Observe the projection directly via the read API (host port 8120).
+curl -fsS http://localhost:8120/register | jq
+# → [ { "id": "<zaak-uuid>", "status": "INGEDIEND", "bsn": null, "naamPlaceholder": null } ]
+
+# 4. Idempotency + rebuild: replays don't duplicate; a rebuild repopulates from the
+#    notification log (no OpenZaak access needed — ADR-0008).
+curl -fsS -X POST http://localhost:8110/admin/rebuild   # Event Subscriber, host port 8110
+curl -fsS http://localhost:8120/register | jq 'length'  # → unchanged
+```
+
+> `bsn` / `naam_placeholder` are deferred (ADR-0008) — the notification doesn't carry them and
+> the subscriber may not read OpenZaak directly (§8.1). They surface in a later slice.
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
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       - "ADR-0005: Mutation testing": architecture/adr-0005-mutation-testing.md
       - "ADR-0006: ACL integration test provisioning": architecture/adr-0006-integration-test-provisioning.md
       - "ADR-0007: OpenZaak → NRC notification wiring": architecture/adr-0007-notification-wiring.md
+      - "ADR-0008: Read projection store": architecture/adr-0008-read-projection-store.md
   - Working in Gitea: gitea-workflow.md
+  - Demo script: demo-script.md
   - Runbooks:
       - CI: runbooks/ci.md